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The word 'sangsters'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sangstersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1137
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sangsters in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"Are the Sangsters nae comin?" speared Nava. "We
doon three bars o chuddy. The Sangsters hid chored a packet o ginger
e're fur Tir-nan-Og," quo the Sangsters, tho neither Jenny nur Brian
a place is Adam's Peak?" the Sangsters winted tae ken.
r dis that mean?' speired the Sangsters. 'Fit dis it mean?'
5 matches

(South) East Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Cairryin Stream o Tradeetion, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
year the guest artists tak in Sangsters an Back o the Moon, fae Scotl
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
it speired wha thi baund, thi sangsters an thi dancers micht be - an
1 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ecam the source singers. Mony sangsters, wha dookit theirsels in the on page 56

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
e ensure for its scrievers an sangsters, the rich culture that has la
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e wisna the demand for skeely sangsters an polyphonic componers ony m
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 58 - The Sang o the Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
We're gey seilfu tae hae sic sangsters: they sud be better kent. An on page 77

1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
We hae nocht but the best sangsters in @theSNP! https://t.co/tUOJ(2019)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@ashdouglasscot Sangsters an makars/rimers forbye.(2020)

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